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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE:

GEORGE C. SETCHELL, OF NORVICH, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE VILLIAM II.PAGE WOOD TYPE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DIE FOR FORMI'NG WOOD TYPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,863, dated May. 7,1889.

Application filed December 5, 1888. Serial No. 292,735. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE C. SETOHELL, of Norwich, vin the county ofNew London and State Of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Dies for Forming Wood Type; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to dies for forming wood type by impression On theplan shown in an application filed by myself jointly with W. H. Page,December 5, 1888, Serial No. 292,719, and also an application filed bythe said W. H. Page, Serial.NO.'292,7 34, and of same date. These diesare the counterpart of the types and have raised portions to press downthe wood about one letter. In some parts Of the die the higher parts ofthe metal are necessarily thin, and these parts are therefore liable, asI have found, to bend in working, and thus ruin the work and the die. Ihave found by experiment that this may be remedied, without injury tothe type produced, by reducing the height of these thin portions of thedie below the surface Of the other parts of the die, and in this myinvention consists.

It is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lrepresents a perspective view of a die for the letter X. Fig. 2 shows asection on line :c of Fig. l. Fig. Sshows a perspective View of the dieused in forming the type of M. Fig. 4 is a section of Fig. 3 On line Q/y.

In Fig. l the portions o, indicate the parts of the die raised to givethe full depth of the impression in the type. The parts Z7 (shown in thehatched lines) are the sunken parts. The lines l and points 2 indicatethe division between the extremities of the letter. The lines indicatethin raised portions of the die, which make by impression a line ofdivision, and these are lower, as shown in Fig. 2, than the other raisedportions.

In Fig. 3 the points Sof the raised portions CZ are also thin, andthese, as shown in Fig. 4, are beveled down thinnest at the extremity.This reduction of the thinnest portions gives at the same timelsufficient indentations in the wood of the type tO secure perfect linesin printing, and leaves a type better suited to cleaning.

A die for forming wood type by impression, having the thinnest portionsof its raised parts reduced in height below thelevel of the other raisedportions, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence Of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE C. SETCHELL.

Witnesses:

FRANK H. ALLEN, ALONZO M. LUTHER.

